]]>The crazy, time-traveling, deserted island, sci-fi drama Lost is loaded with baffling mysteries and confusing timelines. Perhaps most baffling is the confusing timeline with repeated instances where the creators swore they weren’t just messing with us, before they then went and totally just messed with us. Now our sad realization that they never intended to provide any pay off has been realized, thanks to an interview from a guy who heard this from another guy.

Nick Santora, who as writer and executive producer for Prison Break and Scorpion knows a thing or two about television shows not making any sense, was a recent guest on the Nerdist Writer’s Panel Podcast were he shared some inside info about Lost’s writer’s room. Here’s what Santora had to say:

“We had an expression in the room, which was “no polar bears,” which was a reference to “Lost”. I had friends that were writing on “Lost” —I can’t say who they were. I was watching football with one of them, [and] I was telling them how much I loved the show. I’m like “how are you going to pay all this stuff off?” And he looked at me and goes “we’re not.” And I go, “What do you mean you’re not?” He said, “We literally just think of the weirdest, most fucked up thing and write it, and we’re never going to pay it off.” And I look at him and I’m like “that’s such bullshit! You are completely fucking with the audience.” I want to bring a class-action lawsuit on behalf of everyone who watched “Lost” all those years. Nina Hartley jerked people off less than “Lost” did.”